I live in Switzerland (in Geneva, to be exact), and after living in a couple of other countries, it's nice to be in a place where people don't just use trashcans because they're told to, but rather because they've taken consciousness of *who* is going to suffer from pollution and ultimately clean the mess (and pay for it): their kids.
When I was a kid in the 70's and 80's, pollution wasn't an issue. Now you see thousands of ppl suffering from what we littered 20 years ago. HFC gas follows the same pattern (what's eating the ozone layer is what humans rejected about 30 years ago, wait for the big sun-tan).
I was extremely suprised how new 'leaving a place clean' is to Americans. Some people there really thinkt the planet is a giant disposal bin and don't give a rat's ass as to *who* is going to suffer and clean the mess (your kids, folks).
Yup, I think Europe is a bit ahead in that matter.
Btw, we should all think about power consumption with our PCs. Heck, my oc'd PC with its big monitor must suck quite a lot. If only PPC or Transmeta CPUs and LCD panels were the rule, sure we could cancel building another electric plant...
Shouldn't you sue the people who wrote his operating system and FTP server?
The RIAA and MPAA wish to thank you for your insight. Indeed, we will very soon unleash our blood-thirsty lawyers on all persons who work or have worked on "Open-Source" network software, including their parent operating systems. Such software is not tolerable in a modern, free, capitalist world.
From now on, everybody is required to run Microsoft Windows(tm) software and pay a mandatory fee of $399/month as a provisional royalty payment for listening to sound and music.
In Switzerland, so many people called 113 (the European emergency number) because it was setup as a default 'speed-dialing' key the cops don't take any calls made from a mobile into consideration and won't answer to them. This is pure stupidity 'cause a mobile phone *really* is something that can save lives...
And now that almost everybody has one, public phones started disappearing... Better not be in trouble when I visit the outside (what a strange world).
[NEWS, Nov. 1, 2002] The recent and intense global warming of the planet, over 7 C in just 14 months, is finally explained. International research centers using 12 observation satellites discovered the heat increase came from a new breed of microprocessors from Intel Corporation, the "Pentium IV". The heat generated by thousands of Pentium IV processors since its introduction in 2001 is being held responsible for the rise of sea-levels which caused the death of over 500 million people throughout the world and the flooding of 23% of all emerged lands of the planet.
In a net interview with Andy Grove, chairman of Intel Corp. who is now living on a giant floating base above what was Los Angeles, he declared "We are pleased our new Pentium IV processor had the effect our PR staff predicted: DEVASTATING!". He also announced Intel was actively working on a new "hot" processor, but complained their research was "limited by the available energy available in our solar system". The interview was interrupted by a sudden power failure.
First of all, you're not even able to comment on the global issue raised in my post. Secondly, you're so much into your own little neighbourhood you can't see any further than your doorstep.
I wonder how you would react if your native language was insulted and bashed by morons of your kind. You probably have never been to a French-speaking place or country or have any French-speaking friends.
Though, I agree English is by far the standard world communication language. It's remarkably easy to learn thanks to its easy grammar and melting-pot vacabulary. Anybody on this planet should have a way to learn English, which can only allow survival of local cultures in this globalised world.
Indeed, French is meaningless compared to Mandarin, Hindi, English, Spanish... But don't forget French is spoken in Switzerland, Belgium, Canada and most of Western Africa. I'm not even counting all former or actual French colonies.
It's important that information can reach those who don't and/or can't get to learn English. You'd be amazed by the amount of people who can't speak English, even in industrialised countries, and I don't see a valid reason for marginalising those people...
As long as there's real translators, things will be fine. And it should provide good jobs to those who can master several languages. Heck, I'm working on a site that's supposed to be in a dozen languages or so, and lemme tell you the translators take big bucks...
Thanks for the info, but there's a glitch if one wants to deploy it for a moneyless NGO:
Backend requirements:
- Solaris[tm] 7 Release 5/99 operating environment or higher
- Java[tm] 1.2 platform
- Ultra[tm] 60 system, 256 MB RAM, 2 CPU or higher
- Netscape Navigator 4.7 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 browser
I believe the Ultra 60 server would be waaaayyyy out of NGOs financial league.
I'm mostly looking at something that would run from an x86 server, or a cluster of them (depending on the needs, thanx to Linux modularity isn't much of a hassle).
The best would be either StarOffice, but it lags on old boxes without enough RAM, or KOffice/Konqueror with Zope for the web front end. A single box could do the MS formats translation for external compatibility would solve many problems, and anyway there's always some MS Office license hanging around in a bundle offer with a cheap PC.
If there's anyone who feels that kind of stuff is possible, get in touch with me! Geneva, Switzerland, is the home of hundreds of international NGOs. They all have needs...
I would really like to see a complete OSS package based on GNU/Linux or *BSD that would allow a moneyless NGO, or any office for that matter, to deploy a LAN with more-or-less dumb terminals (old Pentiums for example) that would entirely run from the server.
The package would have to serve all office (not M$!) applications such as PIM, word processor, spreadshit, db, etc AND be compatible with MS file formats (let's be real, do you any office that doesn't use a flavour of MS Word?).
The cherry at the top would be a web end that would update a site automagically... (think XML all the way)
Yes, it sounds like M$.net and all their IIS/Office stuff, but if there's an OSS alternative, I can tell you most NGOs and international organisations will dive for it once they realise they can save tons of cash, which is something they always lack ('specially NGOs).
If it already exist, tell me... I got clients for that!
Btw, does anybody know of a hosting provider that would host for free or for very little money a moneyless, small NGO site?
I used to service Toshiba and Compaq laptops, and I have to say I was quite impressed by the aftermarket service both brands. We could get parts for 8+ years old laptops. OTOH, we couldn't even get a power supply for ACER or Texas Instruments laptops that were 2 months old. At the time, Dell had virtually no service over Europe (that's 3 years ago) and IBM was just restructuring its maintenance services.
Laptops are fragile, that's why one should always be aware of the kind of after-market service you get *after*. NEVER buy a "small brand", cause by the time they cash the check, the company usually has already filed for bankruptcy. I remember that USian asking us to fix his "unknown brand" laptop for which he had paid an extra $200 for a "worldwide warranty". Poor guy...
Apple has always taken care of its flaky hardware better than other manufacturers simply because they *admit* having bad series or defect.
Now, I'm considering buying a laptop fairly soon, and nobody in the PC world can offer me decent battery time (Crusoe is still far away and I need 4 hours on battery) , so an iBook or PB is the only solution for now. Most of the software I use (Macromedia stuff mostly) run on Mac so it won't be too painful for me to adapt. Considering the cost of a laptop, I'd rather go with a company that treats its customers better than the others.
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It's either an Airport base or an iBook power supply.
Since the iBook looks like a toilet seat, I suppose the pic was taken in the right place...
It definitely shows the Linux/BSD/*NIX world is getting more and more important to corporate business. It may not be much, but it's an important step.
The simple fact Joe User sees there's Linux/BSD versions available will trigger curiosity, and that can't be bad. The more he'll see that the products he's using are available for other platforms platforms, the more this person can think about changing platforms because he won't have to learn new software.
Most users don't give a fsck if they're running their software on an evil OS or not. They just want their applications, including me.
I don't need an extra modem: my Palm IIIx connects seamlessly by IR to my GSM mobile (a Nokia 8210, really tiny great thing). OK, it's 9600bps but I can get my mail in the train.
Browsing is slow, although I can access WAP sites that are a little bit faster but scarce in content. And GSM mobiles work almost everywhere in the world, except in the USA of course:( OK, I know there's tri-band mobiles that work everywhere available from Motorola, but that's another story.
Considering the power and memory available on Palm PDAs, I think 9600bps (or 14.400 in rare cases) are quite enough to send or receive email. If you need more, get a laptop. It'll still work with the mobile phone as a modem and there's great chances you'll have a regular modem in it. Or just wait for the 3G phones, it'll be 2MB/s...
Now, I'd love to see those Palm/phone hybrids from Kyocera that are on the US market only 'cause they don't do GSM (only CDMA) OTOH, I like having the choice between having a tiny mobile (79g only) that fits anywhere and the full geek gear (a Palm III is quite bulky, can't wait getting a Vx!).
In other words, why would somebody want a *real* modem in a Palm, when usually you got the mobile ready for the task, with no cable/hassle with it? OK, here everyone has a mobile and all Palm owners I know also have a mobile, since they pretty much fit together in a standard geek logic.
Iraq can't threaten US anymore, so it points the ICBM it bought from some corrupt Russian general at Berlin.
Boy, you believed everything said on CNN or what? Iraq NEVER threatened the USA, nor has it ever had the power to do so. The whole of the US intervention in Kuwait was to protect oil production so its price won't get too high. Experts were predicting the oil barrel would rise up to $50, which would have harmed the US economy. Saying that Iraq was threatening your country is a paranoid scheme, the same kind that has lead many administrations to use it as a way to justify not_so_nice actions.
Honestly, I don't give a rat's ass if the shield is made, I'm just worried about it's consequences. Bush's speech is full of paranoid stuff and I don't think the planet needs such a nutcase in charge of the biggest stockpile of mass-destruction gadgets.
And, for fuck's sake, stop thinking Europeans are a bunch of condescendant colonialists. You guys are the most imperialist people this planet has ever seen, and we're getting a tad tired of your so-called culture.
I fully support you in telling us your opinion about GWB. Slashdot is read internationally, and I can tell you, GWB is seen as real freak from Europe.
The general view is both candidates are pretty much stupid, but Bush is seen as dangerous. I believe this guy has the potential to trigger the big red button. Man, Russia and China are going to be majorly pissed off if he makes it, because of that missile defense shield. And, for you USians, I think your fundamental rights will take the big dive.
Having such a trigger-happy moron at the head of a very powerful country is suicide. "Dubya" has no idea of where he's going as soon as he's out of Texas, and Dick Cheney is a real rattlesnake who orchestrated the big PR bullshit during the "Gulf war".
If the original Corinthians.com is just a bible thingo, shouldn't it be corinthinans.org? The dot-com is for commercial use, AFAIK.
Now, why don't American sites use their ".us" country code, huh? All that ".com" mania doesn't bring any good in the long run, I'm tellin' you...
We *really* need new TLDs soon!
Just a question now: why is ICANN only accountable to American courts and laws? After all, they're only supposed to be managing.com.org.net, and they're for international use. Why can't the European Union create its own regulartory organ, as well as the Asia/Pacific region? The Net doesn't belong to the USA only.
"I hate to say it, but would reactions be different if it was Microsoft who hired IGI against another company?"
I'd bet MS did it. Big corporations do that on a regular basis, so what's the big deal *here*? We're all biased against MS (for good reasons, heh), but we should open our eyes to the situation. If Oracle can spy on MS, no doubt they can do it to RH or SuSE... Open Source makes it oh-so-easy...
Now, how would it be considered if RH was spying on Oracle and then release the info to the community? Would it make things any better?
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I live in Switzerland (in Geneva, to be exact), and after living in a couple of other countries, it's nice to be in a place where people don't just use trashcans because they're told to, but rather because they've taken consciousness of *who* is going to suffer from pollution and ultimately clean the mess (and pay for it): their kids.
When I was a kid in the 70's and 80's, pollution wasn't an issue. Now you see thousands of ppl suffering from what we littered 20 years ago. HFC gas follows the same pattern (what's eating the ozone layer is what humans rejected about 30 years ago, wait for the big sun-tan).
I was extremely suprised how new 'leaving a place clean' is to Americans. Some people there really thinkt the planet is a giant disposal bin and don't give a rat's ass as to *who* is going to suffer and clean the mess (your kids, folks).
Yup, I think Europe is a bit ahead in that matter.
Btw, we should all think about power consumption with our PCs. Heck, my oc'd PC with its big monitor must suck quite a lot. If only PPC or Transmeta CPUs and LCD panels were the rule, sure we could cancel building another electric plant...
my 2 cents.
/max
Shouldn't you sue the people who wrote his operating system and FTP server?
The RIAA and MPAA wish to thank you for your insight. Indeed, we will very soon unleash our blood-thirsty lawyers on all persons who work or have worked on "Open-Source" network software, including their parent operating systems. Such software is not tolerable in a modern, free, capitalist world.
From now on, everybody is required to run Microsoft Windows(tm) software and pay a mandatory fee of $399/month as a provisional royalty payment for listening to sound and music.
Thank you.
/max
In Switzerland, so many people called 113 (the European emergency number) because it was setup as a default 'speed-dialing' key the cops don't take any calls made from a mobile into consideration and won't answer to them. This is pure stupidity 'cause a mobile phone *really* is something that can save lives...
And now that almost everybody has one, public phones started disappearing... Better not be in trouble when I visit the outside (what a strange world).
.max
[NEWS, Nov. 1, 2002] The recent and intense global warming of the planet, over 7 C in just 14 months, is finally explained. International research centers using 12 observation satellites discovered the heat increase came from a new breed of microprocessors from Intel Corporation, the "Pentium IV". The heat generated by thousands of Pentium IV processors since its introduction in 2001 is being held responsible for the rise of sea-levels which caused the death of over 500 million people throughout the world and the flooding of 23% of all emerged lands of the planet.
In a net interview with Andy Grove, chairman of Intel Corp. who is now living on a giant floating base above what was Los Angeles, he declared "We are pleased our new Pentium IV processor had the effect our PR staff predicted: DEVASTATING!". He also announced Intel was actively working on a new "hot" processor, but complained their research was "limited by the available energy available in our solar system". The interview was interrupted by a sudden power failure.
you're a troll, and a vulgar one.
First of all, you're not even able to comment on the global issue raised in my post. Secondly, you're so much into your own little neighbourhood you can't see any further than your doorstep.
I wonder how you would react if your native language was insulted and bashed by morons of your kind. You probably have never been to a French-speaking place or country or have any French-speaking friends.
Though, I agree English is by far the standard world communication language. It's remarkably easy to learn thanks to its easy grammar and melting-pot vacabulary. Anybody on this planet should have a way to learn English, which can only allow survival of local cultures in this globalised world.
Indeed, French is meaningless compared to Mandarin, Hindi, English, Spanish... But don't forget French is spoken in Switzerland, Belgium, Canada and most of Western Africa. I'm not even counting all former or actual French colonies.
It's important that information can reach those who don't and/or can't get to learn English. You'd be amazed by the amount of people who can't speak English, even in industrialised countries, and I don't see a valid reason for marginalising those people...
As long as there's real translators, things will be fine. And it should provide good jobs to those who can master several languages. Heck, I'm working on a site that's supposed to be in a dozen languages or so, and lemme tell you the translators take big bucks...
.max
"This week's Computer Chronicles will be about Unix as the coming standard O/S for 16-bit micros"
Do you guys still agree with that one?
.max
Hum, it says it needs an Ultra 60/2 CPU server. Do you think it's OK with Solaris/x86?
web browsers (or HTML rendering engines) need an option to resize graphics
Opera has this. Just use the "+" or "-" keys to resize the whole page. You can zoom quite a lot, believe me.
Over the time, there's less and less unices (or related). It's also interresting to see the technology transfers from one platform to another.
It definitely looks like a darwinian evolution chart mixed with cultural exchanges.
IT LIVES!
Funny if UNIX would become the predominant intelligence on the planet, but...AAAaaargh...
beware!
Thanks for the info, but there's a glitch if one wants to deploy it for a moneyless NGO:
Backend requirements:
- Solaris[tm] 7 Release 5/99 operating environment or higher
- Java[tm] 1.2 platform
- Ultra[tm] 60 system, 256 MB RAM, 2 CPU or higher
- Netscape Navigator 4.7 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 browser
I believe the Ultra 60 server would be waaaayyyy out of NGOs financial league.
I'm mostly looking at something that would run from an x86 server, or a cluster of them (depending on the needs, thanx to Linux modularity isn't much of a hassle).
The best would be either StarOffice, but it lags on old boxes without enough RAM, or KOffice/Konqueror with Zope for the web front end. A single box could do the MS formats translation for external compatibility would solve many problems, and anyway there's always some MS Office license hanging around in a bundle offer with a cheap PC.
If there's anyone who feels that kind of stuff is possible, get in touch with me! Geneva, Switzerland, is the home of hundreds of international NGOs. They all have needs...
.max
You will all have corrected, it's not "spreadshit" but "spreasheet"...
:)
"speadshit" is a M$ feature I DON*T want to see in OSS software...
.max
I would really like to see a complete OSS package based on GNU/Linux or *BSD that would allow a moneyless NGO, or any office for that matter, to deploy a LAN with more-or-less dumb terminals (old Pentiums for example) that would entirely run from the server.
.net and all their IIS/Office stuff, but if there's an OSS alternative, I can tell you most NGOs and international organisations will dive for it once they realise they can save tons of cash, which is something they always lack ('specially NGOs).
The package would have to serve all office (not M$!) applications such as PIM, word processor, spreadshit, db, etc AND be compatible with MS file formats (let's be real, do you any office that doesn't use a flavour of MS Word?).
The cherry at the top would be a web end that would update a site automagically... (think XML all the way)
Yes, it sounds like M$
If it already exist, tell me... I got clients for that!
Btw, does anybody know of a hosting provider that would host for free or for very little money a moneyless, small NGO site?
.max
...and Sony VAIOs are manufactured by... Toshiba.
I used to service Toshiba and Compaq laptops, and I have to say I was quite impressed by the aftermarket service both brands. We could get parts for 8+ years old laptops. OTOH, we couldn't even get a power supply for ACER or Texas Instruments laptops that were 2 months old. At the time, Dell had virtually no service over Europe (that's 3 years ago) and IBM was just restructuring its maintenance services.
Laptops are fragile, that's why one should always be aware of the kind of after-market service you get *after*. NEVER buy a "small brand", cause by the time they cash the check, the company usually has already filed for bankruptcy. I remember that USian asking us to fix his "unknown brand" laptop for which he had paid an extra $200 for a "worldwide warranty". Poor guy...
Apple has always taken care of its flaky hardware better than other manufacturers simply because they *admit* having bad series or defect.
Now, I'm considering buying a laptop fairly soon, and nobody in the PC world can offer me decent battery time (Crusoe is still far away and I need 4 hours on battery) , so an iBook or PB is the only solution for now. Most of the software I use (Macromedia stuff mostly) run on Mac so it won't be too painful for me to adapt. Considering the cost of a laptop, I'd rather go with a company that treats its customers better than the others.
It's either an Airport base or an iBook power supply.
Since the iBook looks like a toilet seat, I suppose the pic was taken in the right place...
now you know
It definitely shows the Linux/BSD/*NIX world is getting more and more important to corporate business. It may not be much, but it's an important step.
.02 on that one, no more.
The simple fact Joe User sees there's Linux/BSD versions available will trigger curiosity, and that can't be bad. The more he'll see that the products he's using are available for other platforms platforms, the more this person can think about changing platforms because he won't have to learn new software.
Most users don't give a fsck if they're running their software on an evil OS or not. They just want their applications, including me.
My
"What happens when our ideals hit the real world?"
Well, they see what's actually going on, they run back to your cortex for the autopsy.
I don't need an extra modem: my Palm IIIx connects seamlessly by IR to my GSM mobile (a Nokia 8210, really tiny great thing). OK, it's 9600bps but I can get my mail in the train.
:( OK, I know there's tri-band mobiles that work everywhere available from Motorola, but that's another story.
Browsing is slow, although I can access WAP sites that are a little bit faster but scarce in content. And GSM mobiles work almost everywhere in the world, except in the USA of course
Considering the power and memory available on Palm PDAs, I think 9600bps (or 14.400 in rare cases) are quite enough to send or receive email. If you need more, get a laptop. It'll still work with the mobile phone as a modem and there's great chances you'll have a regular modem in it. Or just wait for the 3G phones, it'll be 2MB/s...
Now, I'd love to see those Palm/phone hybrids from Kyocera that are on the US market only 'cause they don't do GSM (only CDMA) OTOH, I like having the choice between having a tiny mobile (79g only) that fits anywhere and the full geek gear (a Palm III is quite bulky, can't wait getting a Vx!).
In other words, why would somebody want a *real* modem in a Palm, when usually you got the mobile ready for the task, with no cable/hassle with it? OK, here everyone has a mobile and all Palm owners I know also have a mobile, since they pretty much fit together in a standard geek logic.
.max
Iraq can't threaten US anymore, so it points the ICBM it bought from some corrupt Russian general at Berlin.
Boy, you believed everything said on CNN or what? Iraq NEVER threatened the USA, nor has it ever had the power to do so. The whole of the US intervention in Kuwait was to protect oil production so its price won't get too high. Experts were predicting the oil barrel would rise up to $50, which would have harmed the US economy.
Saying that Iraq was threatening your country is a paranoid scheme, the same kind that has lead many administrations to use it as a way to justify not_so_nice actions.
Honestly, I don't give a rat's ass if the shield is made, I'm just worried about it's consequences. Bush's speech is full of paranoid stuff and I don't think the planet needs such a nutcase in charge of the biggest stockpile of mass-destruction gadgets.
And, for fuck's sake, stop thinking Europeans are a bunch of condescendant colonialists. You guys are the most imperialist people this planet has ever seen, and we're getting a tad tired of your so-called culture.
And yes, I'm trolling and your beer is awful.
I fully support you in telling us your opinion about GWB. Slashdot is read internationally, and I can tell you, GWB is seen as real freak from Europe.
The general view is both candidates are pretty much stupid, but Bush is seen as dangerous. I believe this guy has the potential to trigger the big red button. Man, Russia and China are going to be majorly pissed off if he makes it, because of that missile defense shield. And, for you USians, I think your fundamental rights will take the big dive.
Having such a trigger-happy moron at the head of a very powerful country is suicide. "Dubya" has no idea of where he's going as soon as he's out of Texas, and Dick Cheney is a real rattlesnake who orchestrated the big PR bullshit during the "Gulf war".
Be careful with who you'll vote for, guys.
If the original Corinthians.com is just a bible thingo, shouldn't it be corinthinans.org? The dot-com is for commercial use, AFAIK.
.com .org .net, and they're for international use. Why can't the European Union create its own regulartory organ, as well as the Asia/Pacific region? The Net doesn't belong to the USA only.
Now, why don't American sites use their ".us" country code, huh? All that ".com" mania doesn't bring any good in the long run, I'm tellin' you...
We *really* need new TLDs soon!
Just a question now: why is ICANN only accountable to American courts and laws? After all, they're only supposed to be managing
.max
Slightly offtopic, but Tucows opened a BSD section now. Find it here.
Just in case...
Here in Geneva, Switzerland, there's been such mice for sale at the computer floor of a big departmen store. They cost around US $120.
They've been there for months.
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I've seen way too many lives destroyed by the horrors of real drugs
.gov tax on it, it's banned.
FYI, alcohol and tobacco are classified next to cocain and heroin in toxicology. They're all addictive and eventually lead to death.
The only reason alcohol and tobacco are legal is because governments make billions in taxes over the legal addictive drugs.
Marijuana, OTOH, isn't physically addictive and there is yet to be a death caused by it. But since there's no
If you don't consider alcohol or tobacco as "real drugs", see how nicely people die of liver cancer/sirrhosis (sp?) or lung cancer.
max
I'd bet MS did it. Big corporations do that on a regular basis, so what's the big deal *here*? We're all biased against MS (for good reasons, heh), but we should open our eyes to the situation. If Oracle can spy on MS, no doubt they can do it to RH or SuSE... Open Source makes it oh-so-easy...
Now, how would it be considered if RH was spying on Oracle and then release the info to the community? Would it make things any better?